UNIFE: Current Affairs

It’s the second day of the last week of El Sol and I’m already missing it. I can’t help but sit in my seat and think that these are going to be the last few days with the professors. I maybe be partial to say this, but I honestly thought we were the best class at El Sol. We had so many different characters and personalities that just meshed so well together. Typically, Romeo would have a grammar lecture ready for us but today he actually let us free bird it. Instead of having a structured class as we normally would, we began immersing ourselves in real conversations – talking about politics, economy, history, and personal favorites on things. It was good conversation because I had learned a lot about Romeo. He’s just an interesting guy. Ask him what how the Nazca Lines were formed and he’ll tell you aliens did it. Ok. Not so strange of an answer. Ask him about the history of Peru, and he won’t tell you that ancient Incans ruled most of South America or how they engineered tools for farming and water. No, he believes that giants once roamed Peru and formed civilizations all around. He also doesn’t believe that they built tools to garner water and learned to farm. Romeo told us that water was obtained through hydraulics built inside hills where trees would provide a natural source of water through photosynthesis. Although, it wasn’t the craziest of theories he definitely was pulling these out of thin air. I demanded proof. He had enough plausible reasons that went against all things people initially believed about Peru for him to publish a book. Ten out of ten, would have been a good read. Oh and he said robots helped carved the Nazca Lines. However, let’s move on.

Thanks Romeo for the doses of knowledge. We ended our day at El Sol like any other day – conversation with Rosa. After El Sol, we met up for our bus ride to UNIFE. It’s day two of week two of UNIFE, and the bus ride to UNIFE hasn’t gotten any better. It’s a painful 25-minute commute. We arrive and immediately get into conversation with the girls to talk about more gossip. We then have our culture class on current affairs, and I sit down preparing for my presentation. Class ends and we rendezvous at the library auditorium. I’m more nervous than I ever was and I didn’t know why. Yesterday, I wanted to do my presentation and get it over with but now the anxiety has caught up. I was a little shaky. It was my turn to present for my group and I absolutely nailed it. Thank goodness for that. As others would go up, I had the luxury of being pulled out of the auditorium to be interviewed by a couple UNIFE girls as they asked me about my life and why I came to Peru. It was just another Tuesday.